Symfony on Xampp is developing very slowly, what can I do?

Question

I installed Symfony, but it takes 40 seconds for each page to load.

If I have an empty controller, loading takes 8 seconds. If I start to make some complex queries in the database, this is worse. What can I do?

• deactivate profiler? (will that change much?)
• activate APC in dev mode? (but it will not be a problem to change the code)
• enter a session inside APC?
• Paste Doctrine into the trash?
• ....?

I don’t know where to start.

(I am using Windows 7 with a Xampp server and 8 GB of RAM)

Answer 1

A few quick suggestions:

• install PHP 5.5.x (faster)
• Use mod_fcgid instead of mod_php with Apache
• Raise realpath_cache_size and realpath_cache_ttl to your php.ini
• disable XDebug
• ...

See this question , this question and this question .

Answer 2

There is something wrong with your system. 40 seconds is too long. Even in dev mode, your pages should display for a second or two.

Someone else had similar problems: Windows 7 php + Symfony2 is terribly slow